Gene therapy helps accelerate sportsmen's skeletal muscle injuries

The Hindustan Times;  June 5, 2006 ;     312 words ......therapy to accelerate muscle regeneration in experimental...approach for improving skeletal muscle healing, especially...sports-related injuries. Skeletal muscle injury is one of the most...the activity of the muscle-growth inhibitor...Four weeks after skeletal ...

Taking skeletal muscle to heart.

Science News;  November 19, 1988 ;     700+ words ...Taking Skeletal Muscle to Heart Would you have your songs...increasingly are finding that skeletal muscle can be wrapped around a damaged...valuable assistance. Indeed, while skeletal muscle may never match the heart for...

Bioimpedance analysis: Potential for measuring lower limb skeletal muscle...

JPEN, Journal of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition;  March 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ......partially dependent on lower limb skeletal muscle mass. At present, both research and...clinical methods of evaluating lower limb skeletal muscle mass as a component of nutrition assessment...BIA system, and lower limb fat and skeletal muscle were estimated by dual-energy x-ray...

A novel in vitro three-dimensional skeletal muscle model

In Vitro Cellular & Developmental Biology;  July 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ...Abstract A novel three-dimensional (3D) skeletal muscle model composed of C2C12 mouse myoblasts...Introduction Mature multinucleated skeletal muscle cells are formed and regenerated after...Such knowledge can also improve skeletal muscle tissue engineering approaches, current...

Chronic infusion of interleukin 1 induces hyperlactatemia and altered...

JPEN, Journal of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition;  July 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ......hyperlactatemia and derangements in skeletal muscle and hepatic lactate metabolism was...in an elevated lactate content in skeletal muscle (p < .05) but not in liver. The...significantly (p < .05) in the skeletal muscle of animals infused with IL-1 compared...

Muscle-derived CD45-SCA-1 + C-KIT- progenitor cells give rise to skeletal...

In Vitro Cellular & Developmental Biology;  October 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......cell population isolated from murine skeletal muscle has recently been shown to differentiate...culture conditions, differentiate into skeletal muscle cells in vitro. Lower-extremity skeletal muscle tissue isolated from 3- to 4-wk-old...

Carbon Monoxide may cut skeletal muscle injuries

The Hindustan Times;  June 9, 2008 ;     414 words ......it can significantly reduce skeletal muscle injury following limb peripheral...inflammation locally in the injured skeletal muscle and systemically in the blood...treated mice had less skeletal muscle injury compared to room air treated...

Morphology and molecular composition of sarcosplasmic reticulum surface...

Biophysical Journal;  June 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......excitation-contraction coupling of skeletal muscle cells is initiated by the functional...charge movement restored in dysgenic skeletal muscle by injection of dihydropyridine receptor...isoforms in mature avian fast-twitch skeletal muscle. J. Biol. Chem. 265:14187-14194. Beam...

Contribution of stem cells to skeletal muscle regeneration

Folia Histochemica et Cytobiologica;  April 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......mice Origin of stem cells for skeletal muscle Problems concerning the origin of skeletal muscle progenitor cells were recently...sclerotome and dermomyotome for skeletal muscle and skin, respectively. The...cells during embryogenesis. The skeletal muscle progenitor ...

Dietary fatty acids influence the activity and metabolic control of...

The Journal of Nutrition;  November 1, 1997 ;     700+ words ......Palmitoyltransferase I in Rat Heart and Skeletal Muscle' Glen W. Power23 and Eric A. Newsholme...inhibition by malonyl CoA in rat heart and skeletal muscle. The nutritional state of rats has...of mitochondrial CPT I in heart and skeletal muscle tissue than in the liver, a tissue...

Skeletal Muscle NAD(P)H Two-Photon Fluorescence Microscopy In Vivo:...

Biophysical Journal;  March 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......adenine dinucleotide (NAD(P)H) in murine skeletal muscle in vivo. NAD(P)H fluorescence emission...complexity, of using NAD(P)H TPEFM in skeletal muscle to characterize the topology and metabolic...the use of TPEFM to evaluate murine skeletal muscle morphology and energetics using ...

Skeletal muscle changes after hemiparetic stroke and potential beneficial...

Journal of Rehabilitation Research and Development;  January 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......structural and metabolic changes in skeletal muscle after stroke. Muscle alterations...insulin resistance and diabetes. Skeletal muscle is a major site for insulin-gluco...impaired insulin action in skeletal muscle. The health benefits of exercise...exercise may modify or ...

Multiple regions of RyR1 mediate functional and structural interactions...

Biophysical Journal;  December 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......Ca^sup 2+^ release units (CRUs). In skeletal muscle this interaction is bidirectional...charge movement restored in dysgenic skeletal muscle by injection of dihydropyridine receptor...isoforms in mature avian fast twitch skeletal muscle. J. Biol. Chem. 265:14187-14194. Avila...

Skeletal muscle insulin resistance: roles of fatty acid metabolism and...

Physical Therapy;  November 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......resistance with the storage of lipids in skeletal muscle cells and discusses the abilities...bloodstream and into tissues, such as skeletal muscle, that express glucose transporter...Because of the high responsiveness of skeletal muscle to insulin and the large overall mass...

Skeletal muscle sterol regulatory element binding protein-1c decreases...

The Journal of Nutrition;  June 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......Although SREBP-1c RNA is expressed in skeletal muscle, little is known about its regulation...respond to nutritional status in skeletal muscle. J. Nutr. 133: 1787-1792, 2003. KEY WORDS: * skeletal muscle * transcription factor * insulin...